Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie searched the Zhou Family’s ancient temple for the Heavenly Medicine Seed while Wang Xuan helped Zhou Hongbin and replenished Chen’s treasures. After Professor Lin defeated Huang Jinglin, Wang Xuan arrived at the Huang Family, where he sensed a being awakening near the ancestral hall.

• Wang Xuan gave Chen Yongjie the complete Shakya scripture, and they discussed the risks of following Buddhism and searching for the Heavenly Medicine Seed.
• Wang Xuan visited the Zhou Family temple, extended Zhou Hongbin’s life, studied its Buddhist relics, and chose a mysterious inscribed yellow silk instead of an extraordinary alms bowl.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie searched the Zhou Family’s secret vault but found no lotus seed; Chen planned to visit the Qin Family while Wang headed toward the wealthy clans with temples.
• Wang Xuan changed course for the Huang Family after Qin Cheng told him Professor Lin was fighting Huang Jinglin, and the Sun Family continued tracking his movements.
• Professor Lin defeated Huang Jinglin, and Wang Xuan arrived at the Huang estate, where he quickly subdued Huang Jingfeng’s lightning attack.
• Huang Xinghai led Wang Xuan toward the Huang Family ancestral hall, but Wang sensed a being awakening and prepared the God Slaying Banner.

Wang Xuan met Huang Kun, a broken spirit fragment and the Huang Family’s last immortal, who warned him that the supernatural world would collapse and offered to join forces to seize heavenly medicine. They agreed to meet in three days when two Higher Mental Worlds intersected, and Wang Xuan ended by asking Huang Kun to protect him from a powerful being following him.

• Wang Xuan entered the Huang Family ancestral shrine and met Huang Kun, who praised his ability to open an Inner Scenery Realm.
• Huang Kun explained that the Transcendent Immortals could not stop mythology from rotting away and that supernatural chaos would reach the present world within three years.
• Huang Kun offered Wang Xuan a chance to obtain heavenly medicine when two Higher Mental Worlds intersected, hoping Wang Xuan would help him regain a physical body.
• Huang Kun revealed that the worlds would intersect at midnight in three days and that peerless powerhouses might battle over the heavenly medicine.
• Wang Xuan agreed to act according to the opportunity, then asked Huang Kun to protect him from a powerful Supernatural Being following him.

Wang Xuan uncovered a strange piece of paper money tied to the supernatural world’s decline, gathered allies, and prepared to pursue the Heavenly Medicine. The medicine appeared over Golden Peak earlier than expected, and Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie watched it from afar as Huang Kun urged them to hurry.

• Huang Kun drove away Hu Xuan, then used a soul-light mirror to find Mech Number Five monitoring Wang Xuan and encountered ominous paper money attached to him.
• Wang Xuan showed Huang Kun the paper money from the Mysterious World; Huang Kun warned that it might mourn the Mythological World’s decline, and they agreed to seek the Heavenly Medicine together in three days.
• Wang Xuan spoke with Chen Yongjie about treasures in the Qin Family’s secret treasury, then visited the Wu Family and obtained a small wooden Little Person.
• Wang Xuan went to the Zhong Family to plan with Chen Yongjie, while Huang Kun’s group prepared for their expedition to Golden Peak.
• Abnormal clouds, blood-colored lightning, and destructive ball lightning appeared over Golden Peak ahead of schedule, revealing the Heavenly Medicine to Wang Xuan, Chen Yongjie, and Zhong Qing on detector screens.

A celestial phenomenon over Yucheng City revealed a phantom of the Heavenly Medicine, drawing the attention of supernatural beings and Mech Number Five. Wang Xuan initially declined to join the hunt, but after Mech Number Five stole the hook meant for the Huang Family, he arranged for an untraceable warship as the struggle gathered at Golden Peak Mountain.

• Emerald lightning descended on Golden Peak Mountain and destroyed its main summit, while Huang Kun told Huang Xinghai that the phenomenon revealed only a phantom of the Heavenly Medicine.
• Wang Xuan declined to join the Huang Family’s attempt to fish for the Heavenly Medicine and offered to lend them the hook; Huang Kun accepted his decision and hoped to cooperate another time.
• News of the Heavenly Medicine stirred Zhou Chong, hidden supernatural beings, and Mech Number Five, which traced Wang Xuan to the Huang Family shrine and flew toward Yucheng City.
• Mech Number Five invaded the Zhong family’s systems and stole the hook from a Zhong family spacecraft carrying it to the Huang Family.
• Wang Xuan asked Zhong Qing for an untraceable warship for self-protection, while supernatural practitioners gathered near Golden Peak Mountain as Mech Number Five prepared to use the stolen hook.

Wang Xuan was abducted by Huang Kun and forced to guide immortals through the Great Curtain, but he substituted his own fishing line and caused seven of them to explode. Huang Kun's scheme collapsed as the survivors faced the consequences of the failed crossing.

• A heavenly medicine neared Golden Peak Mountain as Supernatural Practitioners and mysterious beings gathered to seize it, while Wang Xuan chose to stay away and refused to help Huang Kun.
• Huang Kun activated an ancient guidance passage at Golden Peak Mountain, sacrificing the gathered Supernatural Practitioners, immortal bones, and Sarira to draw power from the area.
• Huang Kun abducted Wang Xuan from the Zhong family residence and brought him to Golden Peak Mountain, demanding that he use his Inner Scenery Realm to guide a peerless powerhouse through the Great Curtain.
• Wang Xuan swung a crystalline thread through the Great Curtain, and seven Transcendent Immortals rushed along it toward the present world.
• The seven immortals exploded as they crossed, and Huang Kun discovered that Wang Xuan had replaced the specially refined thread with his own line.

At Golden Peak Mountain, Wang Xuan outmaneuvered Huang Kun and the Transcendent Immortals, but the seven experts trapped behind the Great Curtain died as their flesh and spirits decayed. After escaping with Chen Yongjie, Wang Xuan headed for Yucheng City and prepared to strike at Huang Kun’s true bone.

• Wang Xuan rebuked Huang Kun for his malice, and Huang Kun seized him and bound him with runes.
• Huang Kun forced Wang Xuan’s bleeding palm against the fishing hook, and the seven experts before the Great Curtain exploded and burned away.
• Several Transcendent Immortals entered Wang Xuan’s palm and tried to open his Inner Scenery Realm, but they failed as Wang Xuan questioned them about the world behind the Great Curtain.
• Huang Kun threatened Wang Xuan and then released him when the Transcendent Immortals showed their displeasure.
• Old Chen arrived in a warship, and Chen Yongjie released Wang Xuan from a Small Gourd.
• Wang Xuan left the warship near Yucheng City in a small airship and locked a weapon onto the Huang Family ancestral hall to destroy Huang Kun’s true bone.

Wang Xuan used a wooden incarnation to trap six Transcendent Immortals while he destroyed Huang Kun’s immortal bone and Primordial Spirit fragment. After leaving Yucheng City, he approached the Great Curtain in his warship and ordered an attack on the Transcendent Immortals.

• Wang Xuan let six Transcendent Immortals enter his wooden incarnation, which they could not use to open his Inner Scenery Realm.
• Huang Kun tried to force Wang Xuan against the Great Curtain, but Wang Xuan severed the bloodied hand and fishing hook, triggering the old covenant against the six beings.
• Wang Xuan bombarded the Huang Family’s ancestral shrine with a warship’s energy beams, shattering the immortal bone and destroying its escaping Primordial Spirit fragment with his divine lamp and Scarlet Arrow Feathers.
• Huang Kun lost his immortal fate, while the six beings trapped in the wooden incarnation struggled against the old covenant.
• Wang Xuan left Yucheng City and faced the Transcendent Immortals from his warship, ordering the crew to open fire.

Wang Xuan used the warship and golden Small Gourd to kill Huang Kun, the Transcendent Immortals’ guide, while the six beings who crossed the Great Curtain were torn apart. He refused the Transcendent Immortals’ offer of cooperation, leaving both sides openly hostile and New Star’s major powers preparing for upheaval.

• Wang Xuan ordered the Gray Blood organization’s middle-aged man to fire on Huang Kun as the immortal charged toward the warship.
• Wang Xuan drew Huang Kun into the warship and sucked his Primordial Spirit into the Small Gourd, where the God Slaying Banner destroyed him.
• People watching the battle learned that Wang Xuan was suspected of killing an immortal, while the six beings before the Great Curtain were torn apart by the boundary’s power.
• Wang Xuan asked Sun Rongsheng and the Sun family to join him, but they refused and the major zaibatsu activated the Primordial Plan.
• The Transcendent Immortals offered Wang Xuan cooperation and threatened hostility when he refused to help them cross over.
• Wang Xuan declared that he would oppose the Transcendent Immortals if they forced him into a fight.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie disrupted the Transcendent Immortals’ attempt to force their way into the Present World, then hunted the five who crossed over. Wang Xuan killed three with the God Slaying Banner, while two remained alive.

• Wang Xuan tried to recruit Qin Hong and told Chen Yongjie to leave, but Chen Yongjie refused to abandon him.
• Wang Xuan used a Buddhist silk talisman, with Chen Yongjie’s help, to smash the Transcendent Immortals’ blood-sacrificed sword and wound the beings behind the Great Curtain.
• Five Transcendent Immortals crossed into the Present World before the Great Curtain vanished, but the Old Covenant and the world’s correction left them severely injured.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie rode the Flying Boat to confront the five, and Wang Xuan attacked them with the God Slaying Banner.
• Three of the five Transcendent Immortals were struck by the golden patterns and destroyed as they fled.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie defeated the Transcendent Immortals, who died lamenting that immortality was only a dream and calling themselves Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie's future selves. As the world’s Great Curtains rapidly darkened and strange realms vanished, the Ferryman saw the moon above a land of passing reveal itself as a bleeding, enormous eye.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie captured the last two Transcendent Immortals, who explained that the Old Covenant had forced immortals to leave the human world and warned that the supernatural would decay.
• The two Transcendent Immortals told Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie, “We are your future selves,” then dispersed into ashes; Wang Xuan collected the fishing line and hook they had used to lure him.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie parted ways, while financial magnates discussed whether to activate the Primordial Plan and flee into deep space.
• Wang Xuan returned unharmed from Golden Peak Mountain, astonishing the public and leading the Sun family to avoid confronting him.
• Great Curtains appeared across worlds and rapidly lost half their territories as passages fractured and lands of passing vanished.
• The Ferryman saw the moon disappear and reappear as a blood-dripping, blinking eye above the land of passing.

As the Great Curtains began extinguishing across the universe, Super Material drained away and the supernatural world collapsed, weakening Wang Xuan’s powers and threatening gods and immortals. Wang Xuan searched New Star for returning Transcendent Immortals while wondering what storm was gathering and whether he should return to Old Earth.

• The Great Curtains extinguished across Old Earth, New Star, and other supernatural worlds, killing many beings and rapidly draining Super Material.
• Wang Xuan sensed the supernatural weakening, found that his ancient lamp’s Arrow Feather had lost power, and looted scriptures from the Huang Family.
• Christine and Hansolo’s god felt his faith-based body fading, while Zhou Chong discovered that his Supernatural Rule had failed.
• Blood-red lightning and torrential rain swept across New Star and Old Earth as Transcendent Immortals fled back from the extinguishing Great Curtains.
• Wang Xuan considered returning to Old Earth to awaken the Sword Immortal and searched New Star for beings that had crossed back into the Real World.

Wang Xuan reunited with his university classmates and discussed the supernatural world's impending collapse when a mysterious immortal he had once freed from the Inner Scenery Realm joined them. The man revealed his surname was Zhang and offered Wang Xuan a Heavenly Medicine Seed in exchange for help crossing over, but then abruptly drew a bronze mirror in alarm.

• Wang Xuan met his university classmates in Su City and told them that mythology and the supernatural world were nearing their end.
• Wang Xuan's classmates asked about the immortals and the possibility that mythical beings would become mortals, while he warned them that the old supernatural paths were fading.
• A refined man Wang Xuan recognized as someone he had freed from the Inner Scenery Realm joined the gathering and claimed he had become an immortal during the Eastern Han.
• The man offered Wang Xuan a Heavenly Medicine Seed from the Daoist Ancestral Court as compensation for helping him cross over, and praised Wang Xuan's extraordinary aptitude.
• The man revealed that his surname was Zhang, and Wang Xuan suspected he was the Old Zhang he had often mentioned.
• Old Zhang suddenly stiffened and took out a bronze mirror, startling Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan and the elegant man used a bronze mirror to watch two peerless women approach, and the man warned that they would soon arrive in Su City. As strange visitors appeared at the bar, the mirror also revealed an even more ominous presence.

• The elegant man sensed a powerful figure moving through the bronze mirror, and Wang Xuan recognized the Red-clothed Demon Immortal trying to activate the Supernatural Rules.
• The man told Wang Xuan that the Red-clothed Demon Immortal was likely coming for him, then revealed that a white-clothed woman had also appeared and stopped her from attacking Wang Xuan.
• The two women departed, but the elegant man warned Wang Xuan that they had prepared a landing point, likely in Su City, and would soon enter the real world.
• The bronze mirror showed Withered Yellow Paper money drifting down, prompting the elegant man to put the mirror away after Wang Xuan glimpsed a terrifying shadow.
• Several beings wearing Spacesuits or riding Golden Lions entered the bar.

Wang Xuan encountered a group of Dreadful Spirit-like beings at the bar and learned from the refined man that Transcendent Immortals were about to return in force, threatening chaos across the world. After the beings left, Wang Xuan met their missing mythical creature, Bi'an, which tried to claim his body.

• Wang Xuan watched the spacesuited Dreadful Spirit-like beings arrive and heard the refined man explain that they were like visitors from intersecting parallel universes.
• The refined man left the bar, then warned Wang Xuan that the Red-clothed Demon Immortal and the white-clothed Female Daoist practitioner were heading to Old Earth, while he planned to visit his Dojo on New Moon.
• The refined man warned Wang Xuan that Transcendent Immortals might soon cross worlds in large numbers and that New Star could face bloodshed and chaos.
• Wang Xuan secretly followed the Dreadful Spirit-like beings after they left and heard them lament that they had lost Xiao Xuan before they departed in a strange spacecraft.
• As storms and crimson lightning marked creatures crossing worlds, Wang Xuan encountered Bi'an, the missing Xiao Xuan, which said it wanted to take over his body.
• Wang Xuan recognized Bi'an and ordered it to lie down, preparing to examine the creature.

Wang Xuan killed Bi'an after its divine abilities failed, then learned from Old Chen that the Zhong Family’s secret vault held a trove of dangerous relics. With immortals and other threats gathering, Wang Xuan prepared to return to Old Earth and bring back the Sword Immortal’s true bones as his trump card.

• Bi'an’s divine abilities failed, so it spoke with Wang Xuan about the spacesuited survivors and the Land of the Departed before attacking him.
• Wang Xuan used the God Slaying Banner to destroy Bi'an after it began wrecking the street, then worried that supernatural treasures might soon become unusable.
• Wang Xuan called Old Chen, who described the Zhong Family’s secret vault and its dangerous coffins, sarira, and other relics.
• Zhong Qing and Zhong Cheng learned in a dream that Zhong Yong had awakened and urged them to prepare to evacuate New Star.
• Wang Xuan prepared a false identity and disguise, then set out for Old Earth to retrieve the Sword Immortal’s true bones and guide her return.

Wang Xuan's attempt to travel to Old Earth was interrupted when three warships attacked his spacecraft, killing passengers as he drew their fire and rescued survivors. After the elderly couple died during the escape, Wang Xuan revealed his identity and flew back toward the attackers, vowing to kill them all.

• Wang Xuan changed his appearance and boarded a spacecraft bound for Old Earth, but sensed that it was about to be attacked and warned the captain.
• Wang Xuan left the spacecraft in his Flying Boat to draw fire away, while three warships bombarded the ship and its escape pods.
• Wang Xuan discovered that the attackers coveted his Flying Boat and rescued more than twenty passengers as the spacecraft broke apart.
• A crimson treasure net joined the assault, and Wang Xuan blasted it away before taking the survivors toward the ground under continued fire.
• Wang Xuan landed the survivors near a city, where he found that the elderly couple had died from the jolting and impacts.
• Wang Xuan shattered his disguise, flew back toward the attackers, and vowed to kill every Immortal Calamity member involved.

Wang Xuan blocked a warship’s beam from hitting civilians, then piloted the dark-golden Flying Boat into the sky to attack the warships. His flying sword tore through one ship, leaving the battle raging above the city.

• Wang Xuan used the Flying Boat’s sword to block a warship’s Energy Beam before it struck a crowd of civilians.
• The Blood Shadow dismissed his crew’s concern for civilians and ordered them to target Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan piloted the Flying Boat into the sky as multiple warships fired at him.
• Wang Xuan sent a rune-covered flying sword into a warship, cutting through its hull and blasting apart sections with lightning and flames.

Wang Xuan fought the supernatural attackers who had bombarded a spaceship, using the flying boat’s exotic treasures to destroy their warships while the Zhao and Zhong Families secretly joined the battle. As Chi Meng and the surviving spirits confronted him, Wang Xuan activated a Holy Light Talisman, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Wang Xuan used the yellow gourd, flying sword, spear, and shield to battle Blood Shadow and the warships, while the ancient lamp’s Arrow Feathers killed several attacking spiritual bodies.
• Wang Xuan spotted bloody marks appearing on his body after each spiritual body died, but continued fighting as footage of the battle spread across New Star.
• Zhao Zejun ordered a concealed strike that destroyed one warship, and Zhong Changming sent four Energy Beams to destroy another.
• Three Blood Shadows and four spiritual bodies escaped the wreckage, and one Blood Shadow called himself Chi Meng and declared that he would rebuild the supernatural.
• A separate Blood Shadow watching the footage realized someone was impersonating him as Chi Meng.
• Wang Xuan activated a Holy Light Talisman, bathing the surviving attackers in sacred light.

Wang Xuan defeated Chi Meng, a returning True Immortal who had marked him in an attempt to be reborn through his body, and learned the marks resembled an Afterbirth Mark. He examined Chi Meng’s depleted immortal bones and cultivated inside the last bone’s crumbling Inner Scenery Realm, where his strength continued to rise.

• Wang Xuan used Zhong Changming’s Holy Light Talisman to burn away four spirit bodies, then pursued three Blood Shadows as warships bombarded them.
• A beam from a Sun family secret base nearly struck Wang Xuan, and the Sun family realized that devils had seized control of the base before it was destroyed.
• The three Blood Shadows surrounded Wang Xuan in a forest, where their leader identified himself as Chi Meng of the Nether Blood Sect and attacked with a blood formation.
• Wang Xuan spotted matching marks on Chi Meng’s true bones and his own body, then used the God Slaying Banner to destroy Chi Meng and uncover the marks’ connection to a possible rebirth.
• Old Chen told Wang Xuan the marks resembled an Afterbirth Mark meant to nurture an immortal fetus, and Wang Xuan decided to leave faint traces while studying them.
• Wang Xuan opened the third of Chi Meng’s depleted immortal bones, entered its collapsing Inner Scenery Realm, and cultivated as it drew Mysterious Factor toward his exotic treasures.

Wang Xuan cultivated in the Inner Scenery Realm, advancing his body and spirit while glimpsing the approaching end of mythology. As the realm collapsed, he escaped with the God Slaying Banner and returned to the world in the middle stage of the Life Soil Realm, eager to grow stronger before transcendence vanished.

• Wang Xuan studied the stone tablet scripture and reached into a Mental World, bringing out a weed whose energy strengthened his spiritual body.
• Wang Xuan practiced the Shakya True Scripture and the Feather Ascension Fist, transforming his body and spirit as visions showed him a future in which mythology and sacred beings had disappeared.
• Wang Xuan sensed that the Inner Scenery Realm's Mysterious Factor was running dry and saw darkness beyond a great fissure.
• Wang Xuan brought the God Slaying Banner into the Inner Scenery Realm, then used it to escape when the realm collapsed.
• Wang Xuan returned to his body and discovered he had advanced to the middle stage of the Life Soil Realm, then resolved to seek more battles and breakthroughs.